Friday, March 22, 2013

On March 23, 1775, Patrick Henry gave his famous speech “Give Me Liberty
or Give Me Death”. This modern adaptation by John Ainsworth brings this
speech into modern times, drawing a parallel, and telling Americans to
fight for truth and the law, in order that we might once again have a
limited federal government and true state-rights.

I don't know when the apple turns, it has for me already. I feel bound
by no laws the federal government has passed through its sham of a
legislature. I regard them as laws passed in commission of a fraud. To
whatever extent I obey a federal law it is within my understanding of
rightful liberty.

Civility is not a legal thing, it is a social thing. One might pass all
the hate-speech laws they wish, it does not change the heart wherein
lies the hate. The speech one uses is a reflection of the inner self and
to pass laws against speech is to pass laws against emotion, against
expression, against the privacy of one's skull.

To pass laws against possession of guns will not stop violence, it will
not stop possession, it will only escalate the encounter between police
and otherwise law-abiding citizens. It will indeed make outlaws of those
who possess guns.

These laws are laws passed by a government estranged from the people; a
government peering down at the masses concerned mostly with control of
those masses, not working in conjunction with the people to find that
elusive, necessary balance between liberty and security.

Engage in a Mass Civil
Protest on July 2nd. Sell/Exchange a +15 round Mag to/with a friend on
July 2nd after the Mag Capacity Ban goes into effect. They can't put all
of us in Jail! Feel free to take pictures, and upload video's to
youtube and post them here on our event page documenting your civil
disobedience.

Just a couple of days ago, I reported on two congressmen who were demanding
that the Department of Homeland Security explain their solicitations of
1.6 billion bullets for purchase. Congressman Leonard Lance (R-NJ) and
Representative Timothy Huelscamp (R-KS) both want answers to why DHS
needs to be purchasing that much ammunition, seeing that they are a
domestic agency.

Congressman Doug LaMalfa (R-CA) along with 14 other
House representatives have written a letter
to DHS wanting to know what the Federal agency is buying so many rounds
of ammunition and whether or not they are doing it deliberately to
restrict the supply to the American people.

That’s right friends. With the main stream wanting to poo poo this
story, it is finally making its way to House Representatives and there
are finally voices calling for accountability.

“The extraordinary level of ammunition purchases made by Homeland
Security seems to have, in states such as my own, created an extreme
shortage of ammunition to the point where many gun owners are unable to
purchase any,” LaMalfa wrote in the letter.

LaMalfa pointed out that there are spending cuts, which I’ve pointed
out are not any real cuts, across the board, so he wants to know why
nearly 2 billion rounds of ammunition, enough for a 24 year war, were
being solicited by DHS. “In light of these developments, the lack of
transparency and questions that have been raised pertaining to these
purchases,” Representative LaMalfa asked the following of DHS:

The
United States Constitution defines treason as waging war against a
State or adhering to its enemies, and protects each State from invasion.
Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence frames the American republic as
one that can change its constituent member States, should the will of
the people of any State desire it. All this was turned upside down by a
political party which had seized unlimited power through Lincoln. After
the war, Radical Republican strategy for political hegemony was to
register all Southern black males using the infamous Union and Loyal
Leagues as whips, and disenfranchise white voters who defended their
country, the Confederate States.

“With
only a woebegone corporal’s guard of Democrats to oppose them, the
Republicans proceeded to enact their own reconstruction program for the
South. Embodied in a series of bills passed from March 1867, to February
1868, congressional Reconstruction mandated a series of requirements
before a State could be readmitted to the Union.

The
“unreconstructed” South – all the States but Tennessee – was divided
into five military districts, each commanded by a general supported with
troops. The [President Andrew] Johnson State governments were
abolished, and under the supervision of the district commanders the
States were required to register all adult males and all eligible whites
not falling under the office-exclusion ban of the proposed Fourteenth
Amendment. These voters would elect a constitutional convention, which
in turn had to write a new State constitution with provision for black
suffrage. The legislature thus elected then had to ratify the
Fourteenth Amendment…[and] Only then could a State apply for readmission
to the Union.

{Stephen’s
said], “Our political doom is inevitable….we might just as well stand
still and take what comes”…..[Benjamin] Hill and anyone else could do as
they pleased as far as Stephens was concerned. He had lost all hope.
Constitutional liberty quivered in its death throes. The South’s
inevitable ruin must eventually spread north. Neither accepting nor
rejecting the congressional plan would make any difference. The
difference between the two, he said, was akin “to the difference between
martyrdom and suicide.” Like Caesar, he said, he would wrap himself in his mantle and take the fatal blows without protest.

The
two races could not possibly coexist peacefully in the South, Stephens
said, much less cooperate politically. He never wanted to take part in
public affairs again under such conditions. “We are fast abandoning the
teutonic systems on which our institutions are based and are rushing
fast into the Asian system of empire.”

Stephens
could not register to vote for the State constitutional
convention…[though] he required every black on his property to register.
“Bye and bye,” he told a New York Times reporter, “they will come and
ask me how to vote. What can I tell them but to go with their race?”

Everything
in Georgia was wretched, he told the Philadelphia Enquirer in February,
1868.

“Incendiaries, the offscouring of the earth,” had moved in to
stir up strife. If blacks got control of the State, whites would abandon
it, he predicted. He couldn’t really blame the poor credulous blacks,
though. They had been victimized by “political emissaries,” “reckless
partisans,” “a class of insane politicians like Thad. Stevens,”

“Madness
reigns,” he said. “We are about to destroy freedom, to build up a
[Republican] party and a government that will devour us.” The blacks had
been completely demoralized by registration, he told another reporter.
Most showed little interest in working to prepare next season’s crops.
Under such conditions, race war was inevitable.”

At Catholic
Cemetery on Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, his gravesite is easy to
spot. It is marked by a stark white marble cross and slab lying
underneath a flying Christian flag.

But it was another flag –
the flag of the Confederacy – that helped make a name for Father Abram
Joseph Ryan, the “poet-priest of the South” who considered Mobile home
enough to want to be buried here.

In a Tennessee rectory just
after the South surrendered, the Catholic priest wrote an epitaph for a
fallen nation called “The Conquered Banner.” At one point in time, it
was required reading for schoolchildren.

A Facebook post of a Texas fifth-grader’s test purportedly blaming the United States for 9/11 has gone viral.

Kara Sands of Corpus Christi was looking over one of her son’s test
and was bothered by one of the questions: Why might the United States be
a target for terrorism? The correct answer was “Decisions we made in
the United States have had negative effects on people elsewhere.”

“I’m not going to justify radical terrorists by saying we did
anything to deserve that, over 3,000 people died,” the Flour Bluff
Independent School District mom told Kristv.com.

Recent academic research from the Center
for Immigration Studies (CIS) confirms previous studies over more than
two decades that Republicans cannot win more Hispanic votes by supporting amnesty and other
liberal immigration legislation. Moreover, voting for liberal immigration
policies hurts them significantly with non-Hispanic conservatives. This
CIS research paper, Pro-Immigration Congressional Republicans Do Not Perform Better Among
Latino Voters, by Dr. George Hawley of the University of Houston,
was also published in the academic journal, Social Science Quarterly.

An August 2001 CIS report by Karen
Kaufmann and James G. Gimpel reached similar conclusions. This report,
entitled Impossible Dream or Distant Reality? Republican Efforts to Attract
Latino Voters, should have been sobering news for the Bush administration,
which formulated its immigration policies based on anecdotal myths rather
than statistical reality. The Bush policy of negligible internal and
workplace enforcement earned no Hispanic respect, resulted in a doubling
of illegal immigration, hurt American workers and taxpayers, and accelerated
the growth of a strongly Democrat voting bloc that threatens eventual
Democrat dominance in national elections.

Hispanics
have a strong tradition of Democrat Party loyalty and support because
they favor big government and liberal social-welfare and healthcare
spending. According to a 2011 Pew Research poll, 75 percent of Hispanics
favor big government with more services versus only 41 percent for the
general U.S. population. Support for big government runs to 81 percent
among immigrant Hispanics. They are also unresponsive to Republican
calls for lower taxes. Pew research indicated that 69 percent of Hispanics
favored Obamacare, and 71 percent voted for Obama.

According
to Heather MacDonald of the Manhattan Institute and many other researchers,
the Hispanic reputation for social conservatism is at least two generations
out of date. Social conservatism has become a minority position among
Hispanic voters. Recent Hispanic statistics on out-of-wedlock births
and abortions are about twice as high as non-Hispanic whites.

There are conservative
components of the Hispanic vote: Republicans tend to lead Democrats
among Cubans by about 6 percent. Cubans are important in Florida but
are only about 5 percent of the nation’s voters. G. W. Bush got 56
percent of Hispanic Protestants (32 percent of Hispanic voters) in 2004
but only 33 percent of Hispanic Catholics. Many Hispanic conservatives,
however, have strong objections to amnesty and other liberal immigration
policies.

In October,
Pew Research also found that while 34 percent of Latino (Hispanic) registered
voters say immigration is extremely important to them, immigration ranks
only fifth in their priority of issues. Education, jobs and the economy,
and healthcare all ranked much higher with over 50 percent seeing them
as extremely important. Even the Federal budget deficit was more
important at 36 percent. Only taxes, a Republican issue, ranked lower
at 33 percent.

The new
CIS report supports three highly probable results of Republican support
for amnesty and other liberal immigration programs. (1) Republicans
would NOT see a net gain in Hispanic votes. (2) Amnesty, however, would
result in millions of new voters leaning three to one or better toward
the Democrat Party. (3) It would significantly diminish conservative
support for Republicans. This drop would probably come in the form of
lower conservative voter turnout.

My own analysis of Hawley’s data, indicates
an approximate drop of 10 percent in conservative support for Republicans
who vote for amnesty or other liberal immigration legislation. This
translates into a 4.0 percent drop in the total vote for Republicans,
but it could easily be much higher if voters paid more attention to
candidate positions and used a little discernment in distinguishing
truth from double-talk. Should Republicans stampede to amnesty?
Nothing could be dumber.

Amnesty by whatever name
or subterfuge always results in more illegal immigration. Because
of the 1965 “Reform” Act’s Chain Migration effect, it also results
in excessive legal immigration. The excess supply of labor also displaces
Americans and legal immigrants from jobs and depresses the wages of
American workers. The greatest negative impact is suffered by our poorest
people. Yet there is little talk in the media of compassion for them.
They are the forgotten Americans. Pro-amnesty and cheap-labor advocate
propaganda has been successful in encouraging more compassion for those
who are using identity theft and document fraud to gain their way. Over
eight million illegal immigrants hold jobs, while more than 20 million
Americans who want full time work cannot find it. Does anybody really
care about them? Moreover, the fiscal deficits and tax burdens
resulting from illegal immigration and excessive legal immigration far
outweigh any net benefit of our present uncontrolled immigration.

The bottom line politically
on amnesty and its equivalents is that it would in just a few years
completely and permanently tip the balance of power to an increasingly
radical Democrat Party. That will mean that almost every issue will
be dominated by a more powerful, big government, socialist, and anti-Christian
Left. Unfortunately, the Left is being aided by quite a few unthinking
or money-corrupted Republicans.

Where then will be right-to-life,
family values, the institution of marriage, and religious freedom? Who
will be the next generation of U.S. Supreme Court justices and other
federal and state judges? Will the Second Amendment be able to withstand
an increasingly unsympathetic new electorate and future judicial appointments?
The Schumer-Rubio-McCain-Graham (Gang-of-8) amnesty is almost identical
to the Obama amnesty plan. If it passes, we will soon live in a very
different America that might seem a nightmare to those who hold conservative
political, economic, social, and religious values.

The push for amnesty is backed
by powerful financial and political forces. Yet most Americans are not
well informed on immigration issues and have no idea what irreparable
and catastrophic political, economic, social, and cultural consequences
would follow a huge amnesty. Crucial votes are only months away. We
had better educate ourselves on immigration issues and get ready to
defend our freedoms, or they will soon be suppressed history.

The National Rifle Association on Thursday joined the the New York
State Rifle and Pistol Association, other sportsmen's groups, firearms
businesses and individual gun owners in a lawsuit challenging the
state's strict new gun control law.

The federal suit, filed in Buffalo, said the law violates the
constitutional rights of "law-abiding citizens to keep commonly
possessed firearms in the home for defense of self and family and for
other lawful purposes."

In announcing the NRA's support for the lawsuit, Chris Cox, executive
director of NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action, said Gov. Andrew
Cuomo "usurped the legislative and democratic process" in passing the
measures without sufficient input from the public.

“Despite the wishes of Governor Cuomo, law-abiding citizens have a
fundamental right to keep commonly possessed firearms for defense of
themselves and their families and for other lawful purposes including
the enjoyment of New York’s rich hunting and sporting heritage,” Cox
said in a news release.

In its latest monthly report on economic conditions across the country,
the Federal Reserve points to Obamacare as one reason the unemployment
rate has remained near or above 8 percent under the current
administration.

That’s what Sally Pipes, president of the Pacific Research Institute, writes in an op-ed piece for Forbes magazine.

The Fed’s so-called “beige book” noted that employers across the country
have “cited the unknown effects of the Affordable Care Act as reasons
for planned layoffs and reluctance to hire more staff,” Pipes says,
adding that as more businesses learn about Obamacare, “the more they’re
coming to realize that affordable care” is the last thing it will
provide.

Pipes points out that next year when Obamacare goes into full effect,
insurance companies will have to pay $8 billion in so-called premium
taxes to the federal treasury, a figure that rises to $11.3 billion in
2015 and 2016, then $13.9 billion in 2017, and $14.3 billion after that.
The cost, she writes, will be passed on to consumers in the form of
higher premiums for private coverage.

The Hill
is reporting that Harry Reid (D-NV) will include a "controversial"
expansion of background checks to include private sales in his gun
control bill.

“Later tonight, I will start the process of bringing a bill to reduce
gun violence to the Senate floor. This bill will include the provisions
on background checks, school safety and gun trafficking reported by the
Judiciary Committee,” Reid said.

Several students and parents at Kell High School in
Marietta are upset about an assignment handed out by a social studies
teacher on Monday.

The assignment asked students to find evidence
for a comparison of Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin's methods of
changing Russia from a capitalist country to a command country to
President Barack Obama's methods of changing the United States from a
capitalist country to a socialist country.

Jay Dillon, spokesman
for the Cobb County School District, told CBS Atlanta News that the
teacher who handed out the homework assignment was a fill-in teacher.

After
the assignment was brought to the attention of Kell's principal, the
principal discussed the assignment with the teacher, and the assignment
was withdrawn.

A Florida college professor causing national outrage for requiring
students to write “Jesus” on a piece of paper, then put it on the floor
and stomp on it, turns out also to be a top official in the local
Democratic Party – the latest in a string of acute leadership
embarrassments.

Although one student who refused to participate claims he was
punished by being suspended from the class, Florida Atlantic University
is defending the controversial assignment.

The dissenting student, Ryan Rotela, told the local CBS TV affiliate WPEC
that his instructor, associate professor Deandre Poole, told everyone
in the class to write the word “Jesus” on a piece of paper in bold
letters, then put it on the floor and stomp on it.

Rotela, a junior from Coral Springs, said some of his classmates complied, but he refused.

“Anytime you stomp on something it shows that you believe that
something has no value. So if you were to stomp on the word Jesus, it
says that the word has no value,” he told WPEC.

A religious Mormon who attends church every Sunday, Rotela complained
to school officials but said they responded by suspending him from the
class.

The Pentagon is considering plans for a $150 million overhaul of the
U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba -- including building a
new dining hall, hospital and barracks for the guards -- as part of an
ambitious project recommended by the top general in charge of its
operations, officials tell NBC News.

The proposed spending
spree comes amid mounting signs of unrest among Guantanamo detainees
that lawyers say is threatening their lives. U.S. military officials
confirmed Wednesday that the number of hunger strikers at Guantanamo has
more than tripled in the last two weeks -- from 7 to 25 -- and that
eight of them are being force fed through tubes. Defense lawyers said in
a letter to Congress this week they have gotten reports that “over two
dozen men have lost consciousness.”

We realize it’s short notice, but we wanted to alert you that, later
tonight, Senator Mike Lee of Utah intends to offer an amendment to the
budget resolution that would prohibit any gun control legislation which
does not have a 2/3 vote in the Senate.

We know, we know. We would prefer to prohibit any and all gun control, even if it had 100 votes.
But if the Lee amendment is passed, the practical effect will be that gun control can never again pass the Senate.

Given the Armageddon-like fight which we are now engaged in in the
Senate, achieving a gun-control peace for the rest of our lifetimes
would be a good thing.

ACTION: Contact your Senators. Ask them to vote for the Lee amendment
which would require a 2/3 vote for the Senate to impose any gun
control.

In this slender volume Paul Gottfried addresses everything from the
influence of ancient Greek thought on Oswald Spengler, to the influence
of Zionism on US foreign policy, to the influence of leftist theorist
Herbert Marcuse on Gottfried himself. Quite aside from its therapeutic
value in a world excruciatingly saturated by chatter,War And Democracyis
educational: Gottfried’s wide range of intellectual interests ensures
that the attentive reader will learn quite a bit about the West, past
and present.

The diversity of topics notwithstanding, there is nonetheless unity
to be found, insofar as most of the essays relate at least tangentially
to the book’s title. Whether Gottfried is contemplating the Molnar-Benoist debate over Christianity’s relationship to messianic secularism, or pondering diplomat George Kennan’s fascination with the Kriesau Circle and July 20 Plot,
there is always in the background a grim underlying theme: “[T]he US is
moving along the same trajectory as Western and Central Europe, away
from a bourgeois or older Western civilization, toward some form of
post-Christian, postmodern culture presided over by a vast
administrative apparatus.” Coming as it does from a man familiar with
the work of James Burnham – the political philosopher whose 1941 The Managerial Revolution helped inspire Orwell’s 1984 – this pessimistic conclusion is no surprise.

Alas, it's just a recent ad for the Sunday Times Style Magazine.
Obama topped their 50 best-dressed people in the world list.
She
was then "immortalized" on her very own British first class postage
stamp design — a space traditionally reserved only for the Queen.

NRD has been quiet since Cyprus broke over the weekend, when we were
outraged at the news, but that does -not- mean we haven’t been following
it very closely – very much to the contrary. It’s a fluid situation so
we won’t rehash it, except to commend the inspired tirade against the
blatant ECB/Socialist heist by Lars Seier Christensen here.

If the Cyprus episode promised to be isolated, we wouldn’t worry
about it. But it’s not going to be isolated. It is a reconnaissance in
force by the global socialist allies of the Regime for the next phase in
the collectivist agenda: moving beyond mere income taxation (against
which going Galt is a defense) to outright asset confiscation.

In navigational terms, what’s terrifying here isn’t so much the
Regime’s heading; rather, it’s the velocity. Things are speeding up and
we need to be ready.

Sometimes when things speed up uncomfortably, it is worth taking a
few minutes to pause and refresh on some clear analytics about what is
going on. Good battlefield intelligence is the foundation for an
effective defense.

To that end, NRD is pleased to present the Asset Seizure Risk Cube for your review and use. Unless you are a monkey
who has stumbled upon this post by pure accident, yes, Rhodie, you have
seen something very much like this before. It’s the excellent and
original Bracken CW2 Cube, applied as a tool to evaluating asset capture risks under conditions of socialism.

I’m skeptical that anyone outside of the Kremlin could diagnose its
view of American foreign policy with real certainty, but Fyodor Lukyanov
is probably about as close as an outside observer can get.

He’s the
editor of a journal called Russia in Global Affairs, which is published
in partnership with Foreign Affairs, and he sits on all sorts of foreign
policy councils in Russia. So, while his estimation of Moscow’s
viewpoint is drawn in part from imperfect inference, it’s probably still
got some truth so it.

According to Lukyanov’s latest article in Al-Monitor,
an assessment of the lessons that he believes Russia drew from the Iraq
war that began 10 years ago, President Vladimir Putin and his
government are convinced that U.S. foreign policy is basically running
on madness at this point. Here’s a snip, with my emphasis added, from
Lukyanov’s article:

The conclusions drawn by Putin from the situation
surrounding Iraq were concerned less with Russian-American relations,
and more with general idea of how the world works in the twenty-first
century. The strong do what they want: they don’t contemplate
international law, global reality or the costs incurred by themselves
and others. …

In the 10 years since the Iraq war, Putin’s worldview has only
strengthened and expanded. Now he believes that the strong not only do
what they want, but also fail to understand what they do. From Russian
leadership’s point of view, the Iraq War now looks like the beginning of
the accelerated destruction of regional and global stability,
undermining the last principles of sustainable world order.

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A Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) “urgent bulletin” being sent to
Embassies around the world today is advising both Russian citizens and
companies to begin divesting their assets from Western banking and
financial institutions “immediately” as Kremlin fears grow that both the
European Union and United States are preparing for the largest theft of
private wealth in modern history.

According to this “urgent bulletin,” this warning is being made at
the behest of Prime Minister Medvedev who earlier today warned against
the Western banking systems actions against EU Member Cyprus by stating:

“All possible mistakes that could be made have been made by them, the
measure that was proposed is of a confiscation nature, and
unprecedented in its character. I can’t compare it with anything but …
decisions made by Soviet authorities … when they didn’t think much about
the savings of their population. But we are living in the 21st century,
under market economic conditions. Everybody has been insisting that
ownership rights should be respected.”

Remembrance

To die for one’s country is not only an act of bravery, it is THE act of bravery. For soldiers, it is just an extension of their military career, a part of their duty. As leaders have asked their soldiers to sacrifice themselves for the good of the society, it is only right for leaders to go through the same motion. They should practice what they have preached.

As war is seen as a noble act, tu sat serves as redemption in case of defeat. It is also a way to tell the enemy: “You might have won the battle/war but you don’t deserve to win because you don’t have the chinh nghia (just cause).” And it is not only just cause: it is the moral belief that the cause they are fighting for deserves their total sacrifice. Continues below

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.